Santigold

"You'll Find a Way" is the free iTunes download this week... and it DOES have some No Doubt pseudo-ska-ness about it, at least in the verses. (I like it).

She sounds super-Furtado on this one, too - it's how her voice goes subtly nasal on the higher notes, I think.

seeing as we're just throwing in more and more female vocalists, Cyndi Lauper

she must be a big blondie/pretenders fan.

blueski i said that already keep up!

Cyndi Lauper was already brought up way upthread. (xpost HA)

I do hear the Furtado in there, it's just that with the music I instantly jumped to Stefani. Nelly is more accurate, tho.

The video for "L.E.S. Artistes" is pretty creepy.

There is a huge billboard at the Chiswick roundabout going onto the A4 that I pass on my bus into work, and it's incredibly striking - they did the whole vomiting glitter thing from the album cover with real glitter, and everyone stares at it when we drive past.

I was just in "Zavvi" and they were playing something v MIA-ish, I wonder if that was Santogold. It was quite good though, whatever it was.

i like this album. everybody's already cited all the influences that hit me the first time through, so i'll just say i like it.

blueski i said that already keep up!

sorry. Danielle Brisbois then.

Karen O.

Are people saying Karen O because of the NYC thing? Or is it the disquieting video thing? Vocally, they sound nothing alike.

I still stand by my Clare Grogan comparison way upthread.

HI DERE it's like when somebody reminds you of someone without really looking like them.

plus the general vibe of 'L.E.S. Artistes' did remind me of some YYYs

Okay, I really hope someone decides Portishead and Santogold should tour together.

i think the best songs on res' album are better than the best songs on this.

I haven't heard the Res album in full but the songs I have heard were awesome.

best songs to get - golden boys, they say vision, and the hidden track, say what you wanna (or say say say - i dont know what the real title is, but its awesome).

the songs were a bit stronger/less 'fizzy' than those on the new one.

I've heard the first two and... "Let Love"? Whatever the name of the one that sampled "Other Voices" by The Cure was.

I like the Santogold album, but "Golden Boys" and "They Say Vision" really do blow it out of the water. I'd probably like this album even more if it was sung by Res.

i like this album a lot and i think shes a great songwriter/melodocist but its just a bit lightweight overall, from the lyrics to the production. am seeing her live in a few weeks though -i wonder what shes like live.

i like this album a lot and i think shes a great songwriter/melodocist but its just a bit lightweight overall

Pretty much my feelings exactly.

This is good because she is lightweight.

but its also a bit too safe. i would love to hear her demos of they say vision and golden boys since she says she never liked docs production for res (i didnt much like it either but on those two songs its great).

what are the best res tracks?

First listen: "Hm. Not bad at all. I can see why people like this. Sounds a bit like X, Y, and Z, tho."

Step 2: File away in brain for later listening, perhaps on a sunny day.

Step 3: Forget it exists, don't miss it for a second.

I think she'll need to inject a heavy dose of weird if album no 2's to make much of an impression. The most memorable tracks here tend to be the more off-kilter ones (Creator, My Superman).

So, who's a comparable "heavy weight"?

I prefer her when she's just being pop rock. The 'weirder' tracks are the least successful here IMO, Creator is okay but the others are all skippable. She'll need to get some better producers in if she's going to go down that road on album two (the Switch remix of You'll Find A Way towers above everything else here).

(the Switch remix of You'll Find A Way towers above everything else here)

Before seeing the video to "L.E.S. Artistes", I would have agreed with this.

Conversely the rock tracks are actually really well produced, so clean sounding!

Phew - nobody's called her hip-hop or r&b on here yet, have they?

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3331048

wau, the comments

Gwen Stefani on quaaludes!

whooaaaa watch out there i might have to go rub one out

-- chinchillas they can fit on gorillas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:10 (1 week ago) Link

amazing post

man dude's only been on here for like 4 months and he's already talking about mastrubating

Say Aha kinda reminds me of Diamonds & Guns

Quite like this, I think it'll be a grower.

Oh and the track I heard in the shop and thought might be Santogold was Creator!

she can complain that its racist to talk about the black music influences on the album but helloooo, she IS rapping. she even called it rapping in an interview i read (just in case she thinks its something else).

saw her live tonight. a bit underwhelming. shes obv really trying to do this whole hollertronix-ish thing so instead of a band she had a deejay who still thinks its novel to do things like blend sucker mcs with this charming man. she just sung over instrumentals of the album, which was cool for a bit - shes a good performer/vocalist on stage, and she had two cool robo-dancers with her, but i feel like a chump paying 10-12 quid for a glorified club PA.

like a chump heeeeeeey

i read that in the tune of like a pimp.

Yeah, I'd much rather see her with a band.

is this chick the same santi white who was on the gza joint

Idolator sez yes -- and I would link the story but the site seems to be down at present.

the first five tracks of this album are amazing and then it just dies suddenly. i love how cleanly produced it is, you can hear everything.

the song she wrote w/ashlee simpson is even better though.

She sounds close to MIA in the same way that Duffy sounds similar to Amy Winehouse but there are subtle differences....of which I am not eloquent enough to explore. I personally prefer MIA as she's more 'global' but Santogold makes a great club joint.

She has more songs that sound like No Doubt than songs that sound like MIA.

I think I'm in the "her best songs yet were on the Res album" camp.

somehow i thought id posted here already but yeah i agree

I really, really, really, really, REALLY like "You'll Find A Way", perhaps to an unhealthy degree (particularly the original version; the remix is killer but the arrangement of the original is a million times more exciting in the long run).